Oscar Grant Murdered by BART Police on Fruitvale Platform

Watching the local news this afternoon, I see that a young local, 22-year-old Oscar Grant, was brutally murdered by police at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland. Of course, I had to google it and find that just the one local channel seemed to find it newsworthy. Funny how that works out. Anyhow, there were several eyewitnesses (hint on the network) whom indicated that the victim was facedown and handcuffed when he was shot. However, the AP news article i found indicated that there had been a verbally agressive altercation that had began a couple stops earlier in West Oakland and that "police were in the process of separating the men when the bullet struck Grant."

((I will not copy any more of the article because the fine print says you can't, and given the fact that none of the witnesses that were interviewed wished to be named (or hid their face) of course, I'll refrain from excessive rule breakage just for good measure.))

Additionally, every cell phone in the vicinity with the capabilities of video capture was confiscated. Of course, none of this was mentioned in the article, either. The newscast reported that BART police have no comment about IF in fact any this was captured on said cell phones or IF any were confiscated in the first place. The eyewitnesses say that the cops panicked after the gun went off and decided to take the handcuffs off. I, for one, am far more inclined to believe the words of an eyewitness versus the words of the word massaging heads in the responsible PR departments. All in all, the offending officer was mirandized. Of course, in the world of "accidents happen" to those in charge and everyone else gets reamed, he'll probably just get a nice little paid vacation. "Administrative Leave" they call it. I'll be surprised if anyone gets their cell phones back and how much privacy will be invaded with all that personal information in their hands.